Canada

Alibaba Group has announced that the online payment platform AliPay will officially launch in Canada through a partnership with Snap Pay. Due to this announcement, Canadian retailers will start accepting Chinese currency from Chinese shoppers this week. More than 450 Canadian merchants are said to already accept AliPay in an unofficial capacity. Chinese consumers visiting Canada will…

Google has announced that Android Pay will be available in five new markets: Taiwan, Spain, Brazil, Russia and Canada. So far, Google has officially confirmed that Android Pay is launching in Taiwan. Furthermore, the company unveiled plans to expand its mobile payment app to Canada, Spain, Brazil and…

Following America’s shocking election results, thousands of Americans flooded to Canada’s immigration website, causing it to crash. Canadian authorities confirmed that over 200,000 Americans had visited the website during election night. About 100,000 of the visitors were curious about migrating over to Canada; this dwarfs the 17,000 people that visited…